Lawsuit: Cop posed as postal worker, delivered pot

Woman says police forced her to accept parcel, burst in

10:13 PM,
Nov. 13, 2012

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A 51-year-old Yonkers woman is suing the city and 10 police officers for $1.5 million, claiming that an undercover officer posed as a postal worker at her front door and coerced her into accepting a package of marijuana that was not hers, seconds before four other officers burst in and arrested her.

Cristina Serrantes, a Filipina immigrant who speaks little English, spent a weekend in jail in December after police charged her with felony criminal possession of marijuana, according to the suit, which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in White Plains. The charge was ultimately ...